Mar 26 2013:
First, you have to understand that public education exists to SERVE commerce (money). It does not exist to serve the individual. It is an indoctrination center at its core, and it specializes in those specialties that don't allow students to see a large enough part of the puzzle to figure it out. It even includes provable lies in its indoctrination.

This being the case, the only way that a peon like you or me will be allowed near a decision maker, is either if you have enough money to buy the right to be heard (and that's ALL that you can buy) or if enough individuals act as role models for their children - demonstrating the love and JOY of learning - and having much of their children's education be home-schooled or in small, private classrooms.

In America, schools receive money based on the number of seats filled on any given day. If enough people refuse to fill those seats with their children, and money gets scarce enough, when educators realize that they are being boycotted, they might be willing to listen. (Or, they might start working to put such a stigma on your children that their life is made all the more difficult for it.)

Money rules. It is our culture's god. Shopping malls are that god's temples. Our entire educational system exists to serve that god.

Help bring down the economy that harms so many. Simplify. Do not buy new when you can buy used, and do not buy used when you can learn how to make something yourself - with borrowed tools rather than bought ones - if necessary. If you do this, you will model that very thing that is missing in today's education, and you will be preparing yourself and your children for the day that the unsustainable economy collapses.